An MDE Tool for Defining Software Product Families with Explicit Variation Points

Simone Di Cola, Kung-Kiu Lau, Cuong Tran, and Chen Qian
School of Computer Science
The University of Manchester
Oxford Road, M13 9PL, United Kingdom
dicolas,kung-kiu,ctran,cq@cs.man.ac.uk

Abstract:

Current software product line engineering tools mainly fo-
cus on variability in the problem space, and create product
families by linking variability models to artefacts in the so-
lution space. In this paper, we present a tool that can be
used to define software architectures with explicit variation
points, and hence product families, directly in the solution
space.